Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Jamaica and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Erasure to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All The Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scrapy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gian Franco Pienzio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lightning Bolt,
Alice Coltrane,
Rod Modell,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Neu!,
The Seeds,
Colin Newman,
Janne Schatter,
Altered Images,
Flipper,
Brothers Johnson,
Skriet,
Byron Stingily,
The Star Department,
Urselle,
Deadbeat,
Eden Ahbez,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Slick Rick,
Theoretical Girls,
Japan,
Boredoms,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Scott Walker,
Camouflage,
Steve Hackett,
Kool Moe Dee,
Outsiders,
Fat Boys,
The Misunderstood,
Drexciya,
Minutemen,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nils Olav,
Ultra Naté,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Unrelated Segments,
Bobby Byrd,
Drive Like Jehu,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Barracudas,
Nik Kershaw,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Selecter,
Amon Düül II,
Lebanon Hanover,
Freddie Wadling,
Flamin' Groovies,
Guru Guru,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Slackers,
DJ Style,
Joey Negro,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Kayak,
Con Funk Shun,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Lungfish,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Victims,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.